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Title: 1974. Post by: leefer on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 20:32:31 Piece in the Adver tonight...Town v Bolton and there first Sunday match...8,500 saw it.
Town Keeper Jimmy Allen was missing for religious regions. Nothing changes really...2 up through Ray Clarke and Terry Hubbard,Bolton hit back to grab a point.. The thing that made me chuckle was that because of sunday trading rules at the time the club had to leave one turnstyle open for free entry....of course this was kept hush, hush and only 29 fans went through it for free! It was a terrible season and i think one match was played on a tuesday afternoon in front of only 3000 fans...with Les Allen (clives dad?)in charge the Town were relegated at the season end...after briefly being top after 3 matches. Title: Re: 1974. Post by: BANGKOK RED on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 20:42:13 I was born in 74.
Title: Re: 1974. Post by: Reg Smeeton on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 20:47:20 Piece in the Adver tonight...Town v Bolton and there first Sunday match...8,500 saw it. Town Keeper Jimmy Allen was missing for religious regions. Nothing changes really...2 up through Ray Clarke and Terry Hubbard,Bolton hit back to grab a point.. The thing that made me chuckle was that because of sunday trading rules at the time the club had to leave one turnstyle open for free entry....of course this was kept hush, hush and only 29 fans went through it for free! It was a terrible season and i think one match was played on a tuesday afternoon in front of only 3000 fans...with Les Allen (clives dad?)in charge the Town were relegated at the season end...after briefly being top after 3 matches. A truly terrible season was 73-74, at the time I thought we couldn't have worse but we have. v Looton in Feb 74 we played at home and lost in front of 2600...the previous week 3284 turned up to see us get dicked 4-1 by Notts County....perhaps the worst humiliation being the scum had a higher average attendance, one of only 2 examples when in the same div. Those crowds were so low because games had to be afternoon KO's mid week as floodlights were banned in an effort to conserve electricity, during the 3 day week. I thought it was proper ace, because you could invite a bird round stack up with booze and drugs, and when the power went, use candle light, which tends to get them going a bit. Throw in the fact there was bugger all else to do, and it was a guaranteed shag :) Title: Re: 1974. Post by: leefer on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 20:49:46 One candle to another eh Reg...are you going out tonight.
Title: Re: 1974. Post by: Reg Smeeton on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 20:52:42 One candle to another eh Reg...are you going out tonight. I used four candles... Title: Re: 1974. Post by: BANGKOK RED on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 20:54:04 Handles for forks?
Title: Re: 1974. Post by: Sussex on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 21:03:42 Title: Re: 1974. Post by: Spencer_White on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 21:05:35 Why did they think the attendances would increase having the game on a sunday?
Title: Re: 1974. Post by: 4D on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 21:20:12 I was born in 74. I started school in '74 :baby: Title: Re: 1974. Post by: ghanimah on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 21:29:28 Title: Re: 1974. Post by: Talk Talk on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 21:30:14 I had my first shag in 74.
Title: Re: 1974. Post by: DV on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 21:31:48 my parents werent even married in 74
you old gits. Title: Re: 1974. Post by: Talk Talk on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 21:33:02 my parents werent even married in 74 My parents got married in 1874. Title: Re: 1974. Post by: chalkies_shorts on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 21:33:41 I was at the game in the Stratton Bank - as Reg says a fucking awful season. I didn't see much of it only about a handful of games.
Title: Re: 1974. Post by: Fred Elliot on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 22:18:07 My first ever game
FACT Title: Re: 1974. Post by: 4D on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 22:18:52 My first ever game FACT Were you playing? Title: Re: 1974. Post by: Fred Elliot on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 22:21:00 fuck off whipper snapper
Title: Re: 1974. Post by: Christy on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 22:36:54 My first ever game too
FACT Sat in the old Shrivvy seats, shit scared climbing the old, rickety steps. Is there a link to the Adver piece - I'd love to see it. Title: Re: 1974. Post by: Arriba on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 23:55:16 Title: Re: 1974. Post by: nevillew on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 08:08:49 my parents werent even married in 74 you old gits. So you were seven then ? Title: Re: 1974. Post by: Ardiles on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 12:38:22 I think walking and potty training (possibly) were my main achievements that year.
Title: Re: 1974. Post by: nevillew on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 12:59:24 I think walking and potty training (possibly) were my main achievements that year. So you were the same age as Dave ? Title: Re: 1974. Post by: BANGKOK RED on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 13:20:23 I think walking and potty training (possibly) were my main achievements that year. And passing your driving test? Title: Re: 1974. Post by: sonicyouth on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 14:03:13 the wonderful nick drake died in 74.
Title: Re: 1974. Post by: DV on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 17:30:08 So you were seven then ? Yes, in 1974 I was 7. I was born in 1967 but I tell you I look damn young for 43. Title: Re: 1974. Post by: alanmayes on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 17:56:26 v Looton in Feb 74 we played at home and lost in front of 2600...the previous week 3284 turned up to see us get dicked 4-1 by Notts County....perhaps the worst humiliation being the scum had a higher average attendance, one of only 2 examples when in the same div. Those crowds were so low because games had to be afternoon KO's mid week as floodlights were banned in an effort to conserve electricity, during the 3 day week. I was there for the Loo town game,the Townend was full of school kids who had bunked off and i was happily one of them! :D We had in goal a keeper called Alan Spratley, who was without doubt the worst keeper to ever pull on a Town jersey. Title: Re: 1974. Post by: leefer on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 19:57:42 On loan from QPR.
Title: Re: 1974. Post by: Reg Smeeton on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 20:10:43 On loan from QPR. Think he was all ours...loan players were quite rare back then. We had Jimmy Gabriel that season on loan, I saw him make his debut at Pompey, and he looked and played like a dead man walking....the like of which I hadn't seen since the days of Ken (Rigor Mortis) Keyworth. Title: Re: 1974. Post by: leefer on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 20:22:24 Think it was an emergency loan deal Reg because Allan wouldnt play?...i may be wrong.
Title: Re: 1974. Post by: leefer on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 20:25:27 http://qprreport.blogspot.com/2007/06/birthday-for-ex-qpr-goalie-alan.html
I stand corrected Reg. Title: Re: 1974. Post by: leefer on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 20:35:43 While on the old stuff ive a cracking prog from 1963...the hundred year celebration of the FA .
England v Rest of the World at Wembley. The reason ime mentioning is that ive heard of all the England Players(and rest of world) except one...his name was/is Maurice Norman from Spurs...the rest ide heard of Banks Armfield Wilson Milne Norman? Moore Paine Greaves B,Smith Eastham Charlton...subs,Waiters,Kay(match fixer with Bronco Layne)Flowers,and Shellito. Included in the ROW were greats like Eusebio,Di Stefano,Law and Yashin in goal...and according to the advert on the back cover they all drank Bovril! |